I bought a book this week (or last week at this point, actually) entitled Bambi vs Godzilla. I bought it strictly because of the title, although later when I discovered the subtitle was, “On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business”, I was still interested enough to actually read it.
I want to write books with amazing titles like that.
A friend bought me a cookie as a reward for making it through today. It’s a pumpkin biscotti.
While I am not exactly opposed to all things pumpkin and spice, I’ll take mine as a Jack-o-Lantern or chilled pie with Cool Whip (not canned) on top, please.
But now I want to write a story called, “If I Title it ‘Pumpkin Spice’, Will You Buy It?”
Also today I took the hard way to the easy way to avoid the irritatingly dull way of doing something.
See, I have a list of files. I could upload them to the website and then use Dreamweaver to get the links for each file and insert them into the WordPress Posts which is how the files will be used.
But I’d rather have links to the files. Some domains will let you upload files to a directory, and if you don’t have an index.html file, just give you a hyperlinked list of files in that directory. But noooo…it’s forbidden on my domain to access such directories, and it tosses up a 403 error when I try. (More secure? Probably. Irritating as hell, though.)
So I went to the command prompt and printed the contents of the directory. Then opened the text file and replaced all the double spaces with tabs. Then copied and pasted it into Excel so I could delete the first few columns that I didn’t need. Then took it back to a plain text file and did a find/replace for any lines with trailing spaces, a paragraph break, and a leading space. Then replaced all the double spaces that remained with single spaces. Then replaced all the single spaces with tabs and took it back to Excel, so I could delete the last columns I didn’t need. Then took it back to plain text and took out the tabs so I could put the spaces back in.
All so I didn’t have to type the list.
Well, that’s all I have for now.